Category: Alexander Dugin

Professor Alexander Dugin is one of the most popular political faces and globally-renowned philosophers in the Post-soviet Russia. His milestone work ‘The Fourth way or Fourth Political Theory’ is centered in the Russian historiography and history. He studied Russian imperial history from the context of the ‘Times of troubles’ or ‘Inter-regnum’ that refers to period of social and political chaos in Russian history back in the seventeenth century. For Dugin, the term ‘Times of Troubles’ is not just a social and political upheaval rather he uses the term in the context of philosophy to emphasize the deep spiritual crisis. His whole work is surrounded by the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Post-modernism, through which he deduced the second ‘Times of trouble’ in the contemporary Russian history that occurred as a result of soviet disintegration. Similarly, he pioneered the Fourth Political theory [which argues] the fall communism in Russia, which marked a significant ideological crisis around the globe. For Dugin, all three ideologies either Liberalism, fascism or Communism was the product of European Modernity, which is under severe decline. Moreover, what Dugin emphasizes is the Post-modern critic on the degenerated European modernity that has given materialism an upper hand above the social and traditional domain.